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Ah, yes, rain. I bring this up after an especially good storm we had here, and I, being the Generalite I am, had nothing better to do than to create a thread about it, and liking or disliking the rain. I love the rain, the gentle patter against the windows, the cold sting against my face, the ripple of the puddles on the ground...

Well, suffice to say, I love the rain. I'm sure you Generalites down in Florida have a different opinion entirely. :D

So how about it?

I thought we weren't supposed to mention puddles...

My preferred form of precipitation happens to be snow, hopefully as light and dry as possible and deep enough one needs snorkel when making turns. :) But I do not have anything against rain seeing as it is spring.

I thought we weren't supposed to mention puddles...
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rain is nice on its own, but its real merit comes from its common association with the finest nature has to offer, thunderstorms. Especially the calm right before a storm. :)

Rolling squid;14673980']rain is nice on its own, but its real merit comes from its common association with the finest nature has to offer, thunderstorms. Especially the calm right before a storm. :)

Ah, thunderstorms. Love thunderstorms too, especially right after one passes by during the day, everything starts to clear up, and if you look after it, you can still see lightning flashing about. Absolutely amazing.

I thought we weren't supposed to mention puddles...

Yea does anyone no why there was all that commotion in the one thread. I think it is the one about intelligent design. or Maybe another one.

Well, suffice to say, I love the rain.So how about it?

I totally love the rain. Expecially because when it rains, and when it snows, that's the only moments I can breathe clean air here in Milan.

I totally love the rain. Expecially because when it rains, and when it snows, that's the only moments I can breathe clean air here in Milan.

That makes me thankful I live in some town out in the middle of nowhere, instead of a larger city.:tongue:

I love rain. It's very relaxing.

Thunderstorms are also made of win. They are the ideal time for watching horror movies.

Oh, and interestingly enough, I was contemplating making a thread of this very subject. ;)

I love rain. It's very relaxing.

Thunderstorms are also made of win. They are the ideal time for watching horror movies.

Oh, and interestingly enough, I was contemplating making a thread of this very subject. ;)

Great minds think alike.:wink:

26 of my 38 years were spent in the Pacific Northwest. Me and rain go way back. Ireland can keep its shades of green -- I'm a fan of greys.

we've had a trace of precipitation here since january 1. it snowed a bit overnight a week or so ago.

i dont mind rain in its place. the occasional gullywasher then a month or 2 of sunny days....

I like the rain, I like the puddles it makes, I'm a big fan of water in general so, the more of it that is around the better. I usually enjoy the cool weather that tends to follow, although by now I'm sort of sick of cold. By the time summer starts I'll be praying for rain everyday.

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http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=589210

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=589210

I'm not seeing the big deal about puddles. What is that even supposed to mean?

I'm not seeing the big deal about puddles. What is that even supposed to mean?

Nothing; it is like saying "fluffybottom". But I posted a picture of the item, and Neo Art finds the term extremely offensive, so we probably should not talk about it.

Nothing; it is like saying "fluffybottom". But I posted a picture of the item, and Neo Art finds the term extremely offensive, so we probably should not talk about it.

Pardon my language, but fuck that. I'm not going to refrain from speaking of one of my favorite aspects of rain. I'm not going to let a poster that's offended by a simple term, not meant to be offensive, nor one that used as such, to stop my enjoyment of said term. I'll talk about puddles, and the joy I find in them whenever I like*.

*Providing I'm not spamming

Pardon my language, but fuck that. I'm not going to refrain from speaking of one of my favorite aspects of rain. I'm not going to let a poster that's offended by a simple term, not meant to be offensive, nor one that used as such, to stop my enjoyment of said term. I'll talk about puddles, and the joy I find in them whenever I like*.

*Providing I'm not spamming

Just make sure it does not look like you are referring to Neo Art.

I love the rain, the way it hits the window panes, how everything feels fresher after the showers, how the earth smells, how the temperature feels. I love watching it fall, blanketing the scenery. I love the rain.

I love everything about all types of precipitation - except driving in it. A cup of tea, some cookies, a good book and fire in the fireplace while rain or snow comes down outside gives a feeling of safety and security that cannot be beat.

I love the rain too.

I wish it would rain more here. I certainly enjoy the rain, I love at night being wrapped up in my quilt in bed all nice and warm while I listen to it lash my window outside. I love it when it stops at night and you hear it dripping off the roof onto the ground it is as the constant drip puts you off into a deep sleep.

I love it during the day when the rain is steady (but not hard) when the wind has died down and the outside temperature is a cool 18 degrees celsius, as you sit on the back veranda watching it, another of life's little pleasures. I love the big thunderstorms as the rain pelts down and lighting flashes across the sky bringing for a moment light to the dark. Thunderstorms during the day is good too, as out on the front veranda we sit, and the humidity we breathe as we watch lightning flash over cane fields.

After the storms have passed and the rain has stopped to be able to walk outside as your bare feet are cooled by the damp grass and the birds start to fly again, you can stand there in the back yard and breathe in the fresh air and smell the sweetness of the plants as they release their scent helped by the rain. To be able to see the gutters full of water rushing down, when I was a child we would have boat races with leaves to see who would win. To be able to watch over the next few days the plants and the grass which had turned brown under the harsh unforgiving sun suddenly breathe new life and bounce back with a bright green that gives us all good cheer.

Yes I do love the rain

Heh, poetry in action. :)

Just make sure it does not look like you are referring to Neo Art.

Or more to the point we should, for someone to have a little hissy fit and then demand that people not use the term when he himself is not even a Mod (unless I missed the memo) gives only more reason to use the name if only to have a laugh at an over the top response.

I love the rain too.

I wish it would rain more here. I certainly enjoy the rain, I love at night being wrapped up in my quilt in bed all nice and warm while I listen to it lash my window outside. I love it when it stops at night and you hear it dripping off the roof onto the ground it is as the constant drip puts you off into a deep sleep.

I love it during the day when the rain is steady (but not hard) when the wind has died down and the outside temperature is a cool 18 degrees celsius, as you sit on the back veranda watching it, another of life's little pleasures. I love the big thunderstorms as the rain pelts down and lighting flashes across the sky bringing for a moment light to the dark. Thunderstorms during the day is good too, as out on the front veranda we sit, and the humidity we breathe as we watch lightning flash over cane fields.

After the storms have passed and the rain has stopped to be able to walk outside as your bare feet are cooled by the damp grass and the birds start to fly again, you can stand there in the back yard and breathe in the fresh air and smell the sweetness of the plants as they release their scent helped by the rain. To be able to see the gutters full of water rushing down, when I was a child we would have boat races with leaves to see who would win. To be able to watch over the next few days the plants and the grass which had turned brown under the harsh unforgiving sun suddenly breathe new life and bounce back with a bright green that gives us all good cheer.

Yes I do love the rain

Heh, poetry in action. :)

Heh, you have a gift for these sort of descriptions Blouman. Ever think of becoming a writer?:wink:

Or more to the point we should, for someone to have a little hissy fit and then demand that people not use the term when he himself is not even a Mod (unless I missed the memo) gives only more reason to use the name if only to have a laugh at an over the top response.
Neo Art is better left ignored.

Heh, you have a gift for these sort of descriptions Blouman. Ever think of becoming a writer?:wink:

Heh, not really don't think I would be that good at it, I must admit the thought has crossed my mind when a few ideas for a short story has come to me but don't think it would be anything special. But thanks for the compliment CM.

From Tom Robbins' essay, "Why I live in Northwestern Washington". Read and enjoy:

Our sky can go from lapis to tin in the blink of an eye. Blink again and your latte's diluted. And that's just fine with me. I thrive here on the certainty that no matter how parched my glands, how anhydrous the creek beds, how withered the weeds in the lawn, it's only a matter of time before the rains come home.

The rains will steal down from the Sasquatch slopes. They will rise with the geese from the marshes and sloughs. Rain will fall in sweeps, it will fall in drones, it will fall in cascades of cheap Zen jewelry.

And it will rain a fever. And it will rain a sacrifice. And it will rain sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

Rain will primitivize the cities, slowing every wheel, animating every gutter, diffusing commercial neon into smeary blooms of esoteric calligraphy. Rain will dramatize the countryside, sewing pearls into every web, winding silk around every stump, redrawing the horizon line with a badly frayed brush dipped in tea.

And it will rain an omen. And it will rain a trance. And it will rain a seizure. And it will rain dangers and pale eggs of the beast.

Rain will pour down for days unceasing. Flooding will occur. Wells will fill with drowned ants, basements with fossils. Mossy-haired lunatics will roam the dripping peninsulas. Moisture will gleam on the beak of the Raven. Ancient shamans, rained from their rest in dead tree trunks, will clack their clamshell teeth in the submerged doorways of video parlors. Rivers will swell, sloughs will ferment. Vapors will billow from the troll-infested ditches, challenging windshield wipers, disguising telephone booths. Water will stream off eaves and umbrellas. It will take on the colors of the beer signs and headlamps. It will glisten on the claws of nighttime animals.

And it will rain a screaming. And it will rain a rawness. And it will rain a disorder, and hair-raising hisses from the oldest snake in the world.

Rain will hiss on the freeways. It will hiss around the prows of fishing boats. It will hiss in electrical substations, on the tips of lit cigarettes, and in the trash fires of the dispossessed. Legends will wash from the desecrated burial grounds, graffiti will run down alley walls. Rain will eat the old warpaths, spill the huckleberries, cause toadstools to rise like loaves. It will make poets drunk and winos sober, and polish the horns of the slugs.

And it will rain a miracle. And it will rain a comfort. And it will rain a sense of salvation from the philistinic graspings of the world.

Yes, I'm here for the weather. And when I'm lowered at last into a pit of marvelous mud, a pillow of fern and skunk cabbage beneath my skull, I want my epitaph to read, 'It rained on his parade. And he was glad!'

I like the rain, its relaxing...

However, I dont like Lots and Lots of rain, like over entire weeks....which, unfortunately, we get alot, especially this time of year....I dont like it cause it always floods the only road from my house to Gulfport, meaning that for work/school, I have to make a long-ass loop through Woolmarket and it adds almost an entire half-hour to my trip...

I like rain. Just not as much as we get on my side of the Big Island of Hawaii.

Thunderstorms, however, are a different matter. I love them, as long as I still get power.

You wanna come to Britain. Rain, rain, rain, rain ,rain...

I like thunderstorms myself. I am currently looking for a house that has a screened in porch so that way I can sit in it during a thunderstorm and watch the storm roll on by.

You wanna come to Britain. Rain, rain, rain, rain ,rain...

These is the odd bit of drizzle as well. Drizzle - what a fantastic word.

Ah, yes, rain. I bring this up after an especially good storm we had here, and I, being the Generalite I am, had nothing better to do than to create a thread about it, and liking or disliking the rain. I love the rain, the gentle patter against the windows, the cold sting against my face, the ripple of the puddles on the ground...

Well, suffice to say, I love the rain. I'm sure you Generalites down in Florida have a different opinion entirely. :D

So how about it?

I'm British.

Ah, yes, rain. I bring this up after an especially good storm we had here, and I, being the Generalite I am, had nothing better to do than to create a thread about it, and liking or disliking the rain. I love the rain, the gentle patter against the windows, the cold sting against my face, the ripple of the puddles on the ground...

Well, suffice to say, I love the rain. I'm sure you Generalites down in Florida have a different opinion entirely. :D

So how about it?


Rain I like, it's good for plants and ducks, snow, well that's just too cold.

I live in Glasgow. I have no option but to enjoy the rain, lest I be depressed 95% of the time.

I live in Glasgow. I have no option but to enjoy the rain, lest I be depressed 95% of the time.

It Snowed yesterday! *breaks down in tears*

I'm British.

Heh. So have you come to terms with your fate, or have you decided to end your life soon?

I live in London, which, funnily enough, actually receives less rain than Rome, New York or Sydney.

I live in Florida... :tongue:

The sound of rain is really relaxing and always makes me want to take a nap (for normal thunderstorms, not tropical storms/hurricanes!), but I don't really like being out in the rain...

Heh. So have you come to terms with your fate, or have you decided to end your life soon?

Rain (and complaining about it) is an integral part of this country. Escaping it would be like trying to give up drinking tea.

I thought we weren't supposed to mention puddles...

Are you talking about his lack of bladder control? Because they make adult diapers now. I seen them advertised on TV.